Re: [PATCH] fix for VM test9-pre7

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:

> > The attached patch seems to fix all the reported deadlock
> > problems with the new VM. Basically they could be grouped
> > into 2 categories:
> > 
> > 1) __GFP_IO related locking issues
> > 2) something sleeps on a free/clean/inactive page goal
> >    that isn't worked towards
> 
> Trying mmapp002 it gets killed due to no free
> memory left...

????

I don't believe you. If the system runs out of memory the
current code should loop around and hang the system in a
nasty kind of livelock...

What error messages did you get?

> This was on a 96MB RAM, 180MHz PPro, IDE disks
> 
> Riel, have you tested to run with little memory or
>       limit your memory size? Or rather what system do
>       you test in.

I'm testing on a 64MB test machine, but haven't tested
this one with mem=8m yet..

regards,

Rik
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